Malaga (1978). Antonio Javier studied Journalism and Advanced Studies at Malaga University. He joined SUR in 1999 and has specialised in Arts and Culture since 2004. He won the first Ciudad de Málaga Prize for Journalism.
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Just over a month ago the cartoonist Albert Uderzo died, leaving orphaned the adventures of Asterix the Gaul and Obelix. However, the unyielding spirit of their French hamlet in its battle against the Roman empire lives on in places like Genalguacil,
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The majority of Malaga city's largest and most popular museums and galleries, including the Carmen Thyssen museum, the Russian Museum, the Centre Pompidou and Museo Picasso Málaga will reopen for the first time since the start of the state of alarm t
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The image of a museum gallery crowded with visitors is already history. At least, for a while. New regulations to prevent the spread of the coronavirus will affect cultural centres as then reopen after lockdown. The order published by the Ministry
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One of the most important and pleasing consequences of the increased number of museums in Malaga during the past decade and a half is that two generations of children from the province have had the chance to increase their learning, thanks to these i
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People are looking for ways to relieve the boredom of social distancing and quarantine and one of the more creative ideas has been to try and replicate a famous work of art by just using family members (including the very youngest) and items found ar
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Will Gompertz is well known as one of the most influential commentators on the global art scene. Author of the bestseller What Are You Looking At?, the BBC's arts editor will be in Malaga next Wednesday to give a talk at the Picasso Museum titled Gen
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The museum associated with the Dolmens of Antequera looks rather different than expected. Works have had to be carried out in accordance with a request by Unesco in order to maintain the complex's World Heritage Site status, which it obtained on 15
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According to optical science black is the lack of colour, but who needs colour when one's life palpitates around the point of a pencil or a piece of charcoal? Who wants colour, holding light in the palm of their hand and transferring it from there on
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The Palacio Episcopal in Malaga is currently hosting a collection of works from the Unicaja Foundation's collection of contemporary art works. They include pieces by several Malaga artists including Rogelio López Cuenca, Nono Bandera, Noelia García
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Back in 1975 artist Miguel Ortiz Berrocal and his wife Cristina visited the Ardennes in Belgium and there, in an old forge, he found 20 anvils which were about to be thrown away. He took them and worked on them for nearly ten years, turning them into
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A key artist in the modernisation of the art scene in Malaga has died. Eugenio Chicano was known for his distinctive, avant-garde pop art and also for campaigning for the cultural life of the city, which has exploded in recent years. His work and l
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People in the village say it was a convent at first, then became part of the Guardia Civil station and, later, the house of one of the mayors. The street (Calle Carrera) gets its name from the races that take place during the local fairs and it was t
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We gathered just before 9am at the junction of Calle Molino Lario and Calle Santa María, where metal scaffolding was being erected to the height of the dark-haired woman in a red flamenco dress, a mosaic which has become the most emblematic work in M
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It is an exhibition which aims to show the least-known side of Joaquín Sorolla, an artist who is famous for his use of light, the colour white and the sea. 'Sorolla tierra adentro', which can be seen at the Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja de Malaga
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The perennial debate regarding the relation between an artist's life and their work usually implies a discrepancy. On the one hand we have the creator's allegedly sordid, or at least flawed, character; on the other, their work's attempt to transcend
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"It was curated by Francisco Parauta, who had the idea of putting the greys upstairs, nearer the sky, and the colours on the ground floor, nearer the earth and nature". "I really like Malaga. It's a lovely city," Scully said at the CAC Malaga duri
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For many years now, they have been escaping to that island at Christmas. It is a remote corner halfway between civilisation and wilderness, with fabulous beaches and no electric light at night. It is called Eleuthera, a small island in the Bahamas, w
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Human life needs space. Observation of it becomes literal, physiological, if the microscope focuses for example on the neurones, in the essential space which exists between one and another so a chemical discharge becomes an electrical current capable
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The collection at the Russian Museum in the Tabacalera building is entering the final stretch of its most intense year to date, with two exhibitions featuring two fascinating characters: the poet Anna Ajmátova and the Symbolist painter Nikolái Roeric
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The Andalusian government's Ministry of Culture has opened a can of worms this summer. Earlier this month the Culture Minister, Patricia del Pozo, announced that her department is looking at the money raised from sales of tickets to museums and archa
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As part of its commitment to showcasing contemporary art the Picasso Museum in Malaga (MPM) is hosting a powerful exhibition called Bruce Nauman. Rooms, Bodies, Words until 1 September. This is its most ambitious project so far, and on this occasion
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In the 1950s, Rita Valdés was the star of the Havana hotel at a time when Cuba was home to the biggest cabaret acts in the world. Luck changed, the theatre lowered its curtains and the cabaret building became home to Rita until she was evicted. It wa
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There is a way to determine to what extent an artist is a celebrity: his work has to be much more famous than he is, to the extent that it becomes an icon. This could apply, for example, to the two angels painted by Rafael, Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Pica
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A fault with the air conditioning in the Museum of Malaga this week has seen both the Archaeology and the Fine Arts collections subjected to temperatures as high as 28.5 degrees Celsius. The climate control system has been encountering numberous pr
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Picasso's birth house (Casa Natal de Picasso, Plaza de la Merced, 15) is now host to an exhibition in collaboration with the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Until 23 June, the exhibition 'Iliazd and Picasso' is open between 9.30am and 8pm, including in t
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"It's amazing. It feels like you're inside a Van Gogh painting!" These were the words of Sara, a seven-year-old visitor to the show-cum-exhibition that can now be visited near Malaga city's lighthouse. She made her enthusiastic comments from the or
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The Centre Pompidou in Malaga port this week welcomes its biggest and most important exhibition yet. 'Henri Matisse. Un país nuevo' (Henri Matisse. A new country) brings together some fifty works by the master of modern art, on loan from the gallery'
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From the wireless loudspeaker comes the thunderous voice of Zack de la Rocha spitting out the songs on his first disc with Rage Against the Machine. It sounds like the collapse of a cathedral might, a stampede of buffalos or the Hiroshima atomic bomb
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Once upon a time, a group of hunters went into a small remote hut in the countryside and asked the owner for a drink of water. Inside they saw some pictures painted by his son, and told him that the boy ought to be sent to the Arts and Crafts school
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The belltower in the neighbouring San Agustín church marks the passing of time and tells us we have spent more than an hour in conversation with the artistic director of the Museo Picasso Málaga, José Lebrero, in the patio of the cafeteria there. Leb
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Andy Warhol's body was barely cold when the employees of Sotheby's entered the residence of the father of pop art to draw up the catalogue of possessions which would be included in one of the most famous auctions in recent decades. It took ten days o
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In Russian, 'krasni' means 'red', but also 'nice', 'important' and 'principal'. Nearly every sitting room in that country has an image of an icon on the mantelpiece, an exquisite piece of needlework and a dining table, in what is called the 'red corn
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The new temporary exhibition at the Centre Pompidou Málaga is one of the "pop-up" museum's best yet. More than 80 pieces from the centre's Paris parent's collections take visitors on a journey through the career of a crucial player in the evolution o
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The eyes are rather red and the pupils dilated, but the mouth arches slightly upwards, almost against his will. It is the face of a child who has been crying, and has just managed a bit of a smile. That emotion, between complicity and tenderness, is
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A bearded and naked man with a bull's mask pulled back from his face kneels on the earth. Facing him a woman, also naked, raises her arms with a barbed stick in each hand in a powerful and triumphant dance. Watching are a female bandit, a monkey, a g
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"I'm interested in the poetic reason of María Zambrano, to understand the world through serene meditative thought. I've tried to include that in my work, to depict the emotions that we try to resist." Aixa Portero says each word measuredly as if tryi
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In the 1950s, a young man from an industrial town who had started to make a fortune as an illustrator in the Big Apple, wrote to the director of the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Alfred Barr, offering one of his works to the institution. The
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The Mediterranean Sea is the heart and soul of the new exhibition that opened on Wednesday at the Carmen Thyssen art museum in Malaga. The gallery continues its pledge to deliver quality with this selection of 62 pieces sourced from 33 national and i
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The lychees are waiting in a wicker basket as a bee seems to dive down to them. The fruits are little more than a translucid stain of mauve colouring diluted in water, but for the interiors the artist has used more energetic brushstrokes. The same oc
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In 1917 Pablo Ruiz Picasso set up his studio at number 110 Via Margutta in Rome to paint the sets for the ballet Parade. Half a century later Federico Fellini moved into the same house. The coincidence could well be a metaphor for the relationship be
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The party thought there was too much sky and not enough of the leader, so it refused to allow the painting to be put on display to the public and 'Lenin at the tribunal' (1927) by Isaac Brodsky was therefore kept in storage for years. His style met t
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The Centre Pompidou and Malaga city hall have reached an initial agreement which sets out a plan for the museum to remain in the city for a further five years, extending the current deal which ran until 2020 to 2025. The branch of the French galler
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Malaga has maintained its position as the Spanish city with the fifth best cultural attractions in the latest study by Fundación Contemporánea. THE CITIES IN 2017 Position Change 1. Madrid= 2. Barcelona= 3. Bilbao = 4. Valencia+2 5. Ma
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"Malaga represents an admirable paradox: that of being one of the oldest cities in Europe while at the same time one of the most modern." These were the words of King Felipe, barely three sentences into his speech during the presentation of Gold Meda
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia arrived in Malaga on Tuesday morning to preside over the presentation of Gold Medals for Achievements in Fine Art, which recognised the work of a score of creators and cultural institutions. The event began at 11.30am
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Some outdoor works of art become such a part of everyday life that they end up as emblems of their location. In Malaga, one of these is 'Moving Man' (2002), Stephan Balkenhol's sculpture of a man which is outside the entrance to the Contemporary Art
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Henry Kahnweiler was a German-born art historian, collector and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He had the money and the power to make the difference between who was a successful artist and who wasn't. He was fascinate
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Queen Letizia was on the Costa del Sol on Monday morning to preside over the opening of the annual meeting of directors of the Instituto Cervantes, which took place in Malaga's Tabacalera building. The Instituto Cervantes, a worldwide non-profit go
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Tourists at the Antequera dolmen complex onSaturday didn't realise that they had chosen a special occasion for their visit. As teenager Víctor peered into the well inside the Viera Dolmen, he repeated the word "amazing" like a mantra. Víctor, who had
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Many visitors to Malaga's historic centre have had their curiosity aroused by the giant text written in Latin on the brown wall of the visitor centre next to the city's Roman Theatre. The words reveal a fascinating and long-forgotten story about the
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He claims that his website contains 10,000 creations that are "complete or still to come". Some of them already form part of the interior landscape of millions of homes and design manuals around the world. Philippe Starck (Paris, 1949) has put a juic
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In Malaga on Wednesday Philippe Starck spoke of the other project that links him to the province of Malaga, the oil mill in Ronda. "I'm going to create the most incredible object of my life in Ronda," said Starck, referring to the 18-million-euro
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"You are about to enter the brain of someone who works and looks for solutions, sometimes useful, sometimes useless, but always interesting." This was how Phillipe Starck described the exhibition, 'Starck, Secret Drawings', that opened this week in t
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The Hall of Mirrors at Malaga city hall filled with artists and politicians, from both the national and international arena, to witness the presentation of an honorary OBE to Fernando Francés, the director of the CAC (Malaga's Contemporary Art Centre
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The Spanish Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (Pintores con la Boca y el Pie), a group of artists that have used their creativity to overcome their physical limitations in creating art using their mouth and feet, are now exhibiting their
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Picasso's grandson, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, was in Malaga on Monday to unveil the new collection on display from Tuesday at the Malaga Picasso Museum (MPM). The exhibition Malaga tells the story of Picasso He was joined by director, José Leb
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The 'Kandinsky and Russia' temporary exhibition has been open to the public since Tuesday in Malaga's Russian museum after it waved goodbye to the 'Chagall and his Russian contemporaries' collection a few days ago. Visitors have until 16 July to see
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'La boca' - meaning 'the mouth' - is the name of an exhibition by young artist Beatriz Ros which is currently open at the Yuster/Giner Gallery. 'LA BOCA' Artist. Beatriz Ros (Malaga, 1984). Venue. Galería Yusto/Giner. C/ Madera, 9. Marbella. D
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Police and government officials gave more details last weekend of the gang that was recently arrested for a string of violent bank cashpoint robberies across Malaga province over the last few months. National Police and Guardia Civil arrested five
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The exhibition Artist. Kimsooja (Daegu, South Korea, 1957). Venue. CAC Málaga. Dates and opening hours. Until 8 January 2017. Open Tuesdays to Sundays, 10am to 8pm. Entrance is free of charge. Kimsooja speaks in a soft voice, delicate but firm
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'Cervantes in the Russian Museum collection' On display: A collection of 61 pieces including paintings, drawings, etchings and books. Highlights: The painting 'Don Quijote' (1980-1985) by Helium Korzhev and the etchings by Ilya Repin, Konstatin Rud
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The exhibition by Malaga artist Eugenio Chicano consists of 32 canvases created over the last five years. INFORMATION When. Until 5 February, Tues -Sun 10am-2pm and 5pm-8pm. Where. Salas La Coracha in the Museo del Patrimonio Municipal, Paseo de